Science: Hungry men prefer fat women

posted at 4:37 pm on July 28, 2006 by Allahpundit

Makes sense. If you live in a region where food is scarce, your best bet for healthy offspring is with a mate who has her own personal surplus. This might also explain why, as U.S. waistlines expand, so does the cultural appetite for thin women. Where food is abundant, obesity is a greater health risk than starvation.

Speaking of which, the annual “Miss Cicciona” pageant was held this past weekend. The website’s in Italian, but I think you’ll get the gist.

Here’s a photo from the festivities. I myself am famished at the moment. And yet.

More gender fun: Male online gamers are playing as females because it’s easier to get free stuff that way:

Gamers, both male and female, say female avatars confirm what they already knew: Being a pretty girl has its perks. Female avatars are often the center of attention and showered with gifts such as swords or armor by other characters.

They also, however, get unsolicited and sometimes condescending game play advice from the thousands of mostly male players who populate the MMO universe.

There must be a thousand possible one-liners that would work here, but at 4:30 on Friday afternoon, you’re on your own.

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There was a Korean MMORPG I used to play… Very simple graphics, very easy to play, I forgot what it was called. I looked on the forums for the game one day, and I saw a message, that said something like,

“Excuse me, boys, but for some reason I can only have a male avatar. I can’t find the option to switch my character to female, could anyone help me out?”

The next message:

“The reason you can only play as a male character is because you registered your sex as male when you used your credit card to activate your account. O_o ”

AP, I will NEVER forgive you for this one (or 6). Thats the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. In the last two days you’ve got Sheehans mug, Hillaryas pouchy ‘bust’, and now this??? Where is the relevency? mad cow disease?

You too, can go away now… please JUST GO AWAY, at least for a couple days…..wait, werent you just gone? What has happened to you?
MICHELLE, are you seein’ this?